Event Description
Compelling new research shows that health care is in the midst of a compassion crisis. But the pivotal question is this: Does compassion really matter?
Join us for this installment of the annual Bayada Lecture Series, sponsored by Bayada Home Health Care, featuring Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH, physician scientist and co-other of the book “Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference.” Trzeciak will explore eye-opening data reflecting that compassion could be a wonder drug for the 21st Century.
You will see compelling evidence that:
- Compassion has vast benefits for patients across a wide variety of conditions
- Missed opportunities for compassion can have devastating health effects
- Compassion can help reverse the cost crisis in health care
- Compassion can be an antidote for burnout among health care providers
- Forty seconds of compassion can save a life
Hors d’oeuvres and desserts will be served.
Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH, is a physician scientist, chief of medicine at Cooper University Health Care, and professor and chair of medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden, New Jersey. Trzeciak is a practicing intensivist (specialist in intensive care medicine), and a clinical researcher with more than 120 publications in the scientific literature. His publications have been featured in prominent medical journals, such as: JAMA, Circulation, and The New England Journal of Medicine. His scientific program has been supported by research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with Trzeciak serving as principal investigator.
Trzeciak is the co-author of two books, “Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference” (2019), and “Wonder Drug: 7 Scientifically Proven Ways That Serving Others Is the Best Medicine for Yourself” (2022). His work has been featured in numerous media outlets including CNN, NPR, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, The New York Daily News, and Freakonomics. For this work, he was awarded the Influencers of Healthcare Award by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Broadly, Trzeciak’s mission is to raise compassion and kindness globally, through science.
He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He earned his medical degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his master’s degree in public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his residency training at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his fellowship in critical care medicine at Rush University Medical Center. He is board certified in internal medicine and critical care medicine.
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